Youth Group in May

This spring it has been fun to watch our Youth Group grow deeper in friendships and to watch it take on its own personality.  This last Thursday we were geared up to paint our new youth room in the new building with the D-group kids, but at the last minute had a change of plans.  We shifted gears and went over to the Granberry's home where we ate our pizza, and played volleyball, link tag, and had a three-legged race.  We ended the night by singing some of their favorite songs from Bible Study.  It gave me deep joy to see the youth really smiling and laughing.  Our gatherings as a Youth Group are the only opportunity these kids have to interact in healthy ways with authority and peer figures.  They do not experience the same sort of love and value from other friends, teachers, and family as they do when they are with the Youth Group.  It has taken two years for some of these aspects of the youth group to develop.


I am looking forward to this Thursday, which is another chance to be together as a group.  We plan on painting our youth room, which will give the youth a chance to develop a sense of ownership of the space.  I pray it will be a place where they feel safe, loved, valued, and a part of God's family.  


 "For you shall go out in joy
   and be led forth in peace;  the mountains and the hills before you
   shall break forth into singing,
   and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."  Isaiah 55:12

Yaanibaah, Beth, Eileen, Alexis and me eating pizza

                                      

Latisha and Lisa with a turkey

Sonovia, Thelma and Morgan 

volleyball

Brandon,  Charles,  Dana, and David playing link tag

Alexis chasing Chuck during link tag